Editing Red Cloud (section)

===Great Sioux War of 1876===
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[[File:Red Cloud and other Sioux.jpg|thumb|Seated, L to R: [[Yellow Bear]], Red Cloud, Big Road, [[Little Wound]], Black Crow; Standing, L to R: Red Bear, [[They Fear Even His Horses]], Good Voice, Ring Thunder, Iron Crow, White Tail, Young Spotted Tail, ca. 1860–1880]]
Red Cloud settled at the agency with his band by the fall of 1873. He soon became embroiled in a controversy with the new Indian agent, Dr. John J. Saville.

In 1874, Lieutenant Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer|George Custer]] led a reconnaissance mission into Sioux territory that reported gold in the [[Black Hills]], an area held sacred by the local Native Americans. Previously, the army had unsuccessfully tried to keep miners out of the region, and the threat of violence grew. In May 1875, Lakota delegations headed by Red Cloud, [[Spotted Tail]], and [[Lone Horn]] traveled to Washington in an attempt to persuade President Grant to honor existing treaties and stem the flow of miners into their lands. The Native Americans met on various occasions with Grant, Secretary of the Interior [[Columbus Delano|Delano]], and Commissioner of Indian Affairs [[Edward Parmelee Smith|Smith]]. He told them on May 27 that Congress was ready to resolve the matter by paying the tribes $25,000 for their land and resettling them into [[Indian Territory]]. The delegates refused to sign such a treaty, with Spotted Tail saying about the proposal:

<blockquote>When I was here before, the President gave me my country, and I put my stake down in a good place, and there I want to stay. ... You speak of another country, but it is not my country; it does not concern me, and I want nothing to do with it. I was not born there. ... If it is such a good country, you ought to send the white men now in our country there and let us alone.<ref>{{cite book|last=Griske|first=Michael|title=The Diaries of John Hunton|publisher=Heritage Books|year=2005|pages=64–69|isbn=978-0-7884-3804-2}}</ref></blockquote>

Although Red Cloud was unsuccessful in finding a peaceful solution, he did not take part in the [[Great Sioux War of 1876]], which was led by ''Tȟašúŋke Witkó'' ([[Crazy Horse]]) and ''Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake'' ([[Sitting Bull]]).

In the fall of 1877, the Red Cloud Agency was removed to the upper [[Missouri River]]. The following year, it was removed to the forks of the [[White River (Missouri River)|White River]] in present-day South Dakota, where it was renamed the [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]].